Thanks guys...<br><br>Adding the option fixed the issue...worked like a charm....<br><br>Cheers<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Douglas Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbcl@ceh.ac.uk">dbcl@ceh.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bernd is right that you can use "options byteswapped", but this will not work if you try to use GrADS to read a file on the same platform that it was written on - which is a pretty common occurence - as GrADS will ALWAYS try to reverse the order of the bytes.<br>
<br>
Better to specify the "endianess" by writing<br>
options big_endian<br>
or<br>
options little_endian<br>
in the control file.<br>
<br>
See control file > options at<br>
<a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gadocindex.html" target="_blank">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gadocindex.html</a><br>
<br>
Doug<br>
<br>
<br>
>>> <a href="mailto:bernd.becker@METOFFICE.GOV.UK">bernd.becker@METOFFICE.GOV.UK</a> 07/11/2008 11:12:58 >>><br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Mald,<br>
<br>
you may be running into the problem of "endianess".<br>
<br>
Your pc at home is little endian and your<br>
work boxes are probably bigendian.<br>
<br>
If your data files are not endianess aware,<br>
you will probably have to add the option "byteswapped"<br>
in your ctl file.<br>
<br>
Good luck!<br>
Bernd.<br>
<br>
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 16:04 +0500, Mald MM5 wrote:<br>
> Hi there,<br>
><br>
> I have got grads 1.8SL11 running on an AIX system running UNIX at my<br>
> institution and the am using it fine. I get the results I expected<br>
> using this version.<br>
> However I downloaded version 1.8SL11binary for linux at home and<br>
> installed on my PC running openSuse 11.0. I used the same data file<br>
> and the control file that I was using at the institution.<br>
><br>
> To my surprise, I do not get the same output. For example I was trying<br>
> to view the terrain heights. At home, the contour intervals are given<br>
> as "Contouring: -4.5e+37 to 0 interval 5e+36". Whereas at the<br>
> institution I get "Contouring: 0 to 1.8 interval 0.2". And for all the<br>
> fields its doing the same.<br>
><br>
> Any ideas why this might be happening. I downloaded the latest version<br>
> 2.0 from the link i686 at home. And ended up the same. Something to do<br>
> with my system?<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
> Mald<br>
><br>
><br>
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